Backblogged: Our Five Favorite Sentences of the Week

“We can let our ideals suffocate us or we can survive.” From “Time To Go Nuclear,” by Michael Specter.

“As the writers we return to—those with offspring and those without—have always known, any amount of mothering is enough to break your heart every day, and also to fill it.” From “Writers and the Optimal-Child-Count Spectrum,” by Rebecca Mead.

“The song creates the feeling of being on a tugboat made of bubbles while Nile Rodgers serves you liquid Valium in flute glasses and Pharrell Williams gives vague but really helpful advice.” Sasha Frere-Jones on Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” in “Random Access Denied.”

“Among other consequences of the developing N.S.A. story, maybe Snowden’s revelations will clarify something that is hard to grasp: the Internet is not just a place of freedom and friendly applause for pole-dancing superheroes.” From “We Are All Pole Dancing on the Internet,” by Sasha Weiss.